Mozilla Sets up Developer Center

By ADT Staff

10/05/2005

Mozilla, the Firefox Web browser creator, launched this week its public beta
of the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), aimed at providing developers resources
for building Web sites and Web applications for all Web browsers. The site features
technical information for developers who plan to support the upcoming release
of Firefox 1.5 and develop extensions and plug-ins for Firefox.

The site’s content ranges from tutorials and educational materials to
reference documentation on open Web standards, and is available in English,
French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Polish and Portuguese, Mozilla says.

WebWatch, a blog, is a Web developer's daily dose of key issues and trends
in Web development from across the Web and highlights innovative approaches
and techniques, according to Mozilla. DevNews, an RSS feed, provides up-to-date
information to Firefox Extension developers and Mozilla's development community
around release schedules, API changes and platform enhancements for Mozilla
products.

Developers can already download Firefox 1.5 beta 1 for compatability testing.
The newest version is to feature improved support for CSS2 and CSS3, APIs for
scriptable and programmable 2D graphics through SVG 1.1 and ,
XForms and XML events, as well as many DHTML, JavaScript and DOM enhancements.
Tools to help developers support Firefox 1.5 include:

DOM Inspector, a tool that allows developers to inspect and modify documents
without having to edit the document directly. DOM Inspector is available as
part of the Custom install option in Firefox 1.5 beta under Developer Tools.

JavaScript console, a tool to write and test JavaScript code as well as
view JavaScript and CSS errors on a page.

View page source, with syntax highlighting and find features.

Browser extensions including the Web Developer toolbar, Live HTTP Headers,
HTML Validator and many more.